good morning campers....well i have kind of learned how to photograph my paintings.......kind of because i haven't quite grasped the concept of how to take multiple shots of different areas of my paintings and then put them back together....that involves photoshop or something like it i guess....so the reason for photographing my artwork is to cut my costs a little..... i don't have to pay someone to photograph and print....just print.....
so my husband comes home to my inventive photo studio in the livingroom....i needed good natural light.........he says it seems that my art studio, (which used to be a bedroom, but became my studio) has regurgitated itself into the hall and livingroom.....well he actually said thrown-up, but anyway...i believe the problem happens at night .....you see my stuff is in one area one day...and the next day my stuff is somewhere else.......interesting......it couldn't possibly be me doing it?!....maybe i'm like a magnet and things attach to me and then get dropped off in different areas.... and speaking of things attaching to me....when i made my dinosaur living sculptures for the monument 10 k....i made them out of foam.....lots and lots of foam.....foam attaches to you and doesn't let go by the way......little pieces of foam.......so much foam that it was throughout the whole house and in the front yard and backyard......not really sure how it got out there........this was 3 solid months of making patterns, carving foam, gluing foam, going to buy more foam, carving more foam, gluing more foam, painting foam....you get the picture....foam was my life.......before this i had never made something like this with foam...i did have the help of stan winstons school of charactor arts....i took a class online from ted haines....mind you they are amazing and this was my first try at making stuff out of foam.....chicken wire yes, but not foam.......but hey foam is light , right??....easy to run in??!!....well foam is also very hot!!!....well to wear and run or walk a 10 k in a complete foam costume..........yeah, i made 3 dinosaurs ...we started with 3 people...and crossing the line were 5 people.....me in a complete costume, 2 people in bottom halves, and 2 people in top halves.......i almost gave people a heat stroke with the costumes.......... but in the middle of making these....my husband would come home and just wade through the foam to find a seat in the livingroom or outside....hey that's how it got outside....gary took it there.....see it wasn't me after all.........we would be eating and he would flick off foam every now and then......sitting down on the couch would create a flying foam frenzy with small bits of foam and dinosaur parts strewn on the couch and coffee table....no problem, he would just scoot them aside......walking through the house, little pieces of foam would accumulate on his legs......he really was a good sport about the whole thing.....i didn't really see all this going on with him because i was in a mad dash to get these finished before the race....and was neck deep in foam.......by the way electric carving knives are the best things to cut foam with.....they work like a charm....good thing i'm a veggie, no need to carve that turkey anymore...... so gary's passing comment about my art studio i guess is really founded on the whole possibility of my stuff taking over the house again....what's wrong with that?.... who wouldn't want to live with an artist?....never knowing what will have been painted, glued, carved, created........so exciting everyday!...so my photo studio is not that big of a deal i'm thinking......ya know to really empahsize the whole throwing up part i could make the doorway to my studio into a large mouth....maybe a monster ...a cuddly monster with his eyes looking down from the ceiling........i haven't worked with fiberglass yet....how messy could that be?.............................be groovy
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